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Sweet Potato Rice

It's one of those evenings when I'm too lazy to crack my brain over what to cook for dinner and to make life more relaxing, I whipped up this one-dish meal. It has carbohydrates, protein and adding sweet potatoes to our diet is beneficial too for these tubers contain Vitamins B6, C and D and also have a fair amount of potassium and calcium.

Recipe for Sweet Potato Rice

Ingredients

400 gm Japanese sweet potatoes

100 gm pork fillet

20 gm dried shrimps

2/3 cups rice

sesame oil

Fried shallots and chopped spring onions for garnishing

Seasoning

1/2 tsp each of sugar, light soya sauce, salt

1 tsp oyster sauce

Method

Season the meat for about an hour, set aside.

Peel and cut the sweet potatoes into cubes.

In a wok, shallow fry the dried shrimps, add in the marinated meat followed by the sweet potatoes. Give the mixture a few stirs, turn off heat.

Wash the rice and place in the rice cooker with less water than normal.

When the rice is cooking half-way add in the sweet potato mixture and let it continue till done.

Fluff up the rice, test for taste, drizzle on some sesame oil.

Serve in bowls, garnish with fried shallots, spring onions and a dash of pepper.

Cheah, its my lunch time - can you please share a bowl of the colorful rice with me. This is something interesting - my mom loves to cook sweet potate porrige but new knew can be used to cook rice. Book-marking it....

Hi Cheah, this is a better version compared to olden days. My late Pa used to tell us that he had sweet potatoes as a meal when there was no rice left. This looks very appetising and I wouldn't mind eating it.

This is what we used to eat when we were young. It's cheap and healthy as we planted our own sweet potatoes, very organic. I'm not to sure whether my family will eat this if I cook it. I think I can already hear, 'Eeeewwwww!'.....haha

There has been alot of Japanese sweet potatoes flooding the supermarkets lately and I've been thinking of what else I can make besides the usual paus and all. This is a fantastic idea! one-pot m eals are always my fave!

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